How will he who does not know how to govern himself know how to govern others?

Pray, look better, sir... those things yonder are no giants, but windmills.

Never stand begging for that which you have the power to earn.

In order to attain the impossible, one must attempt the absurd.

He who loses wealth loses much; he who loses a friend loses more; but he that loses his courage loses all.

Three things too much, and three too little are pernicious to man; to speak much, and know little; to spend much, and have little; to presume much, and be worth little.

That one man scorned and covered with scars Still strove with his last ounce of courage To reach the unreachable star.

Too much sanity may be madness and the maddest of all, to see life as it is and not as it should be.

The wicked are always ungrateful.

Her father guarded her, and she guarded herself; for there are no padlocks, bolts, or bars, that secure a maiden better than her own reserve.

Great persons are able to do great kindnesses.

If you miss the first buttonhole you will not succeed in buttoning up your coat.

I wake up in the morning with a list of problems, and I go solve them.

I go to social media, check out my granddaughter's new boyfriend, but the Department of Homeland Security can't figure out they need to be tracking they jihadi web sites?

I banned bottled water from my house - we have a water-filter system so you can drink from the tap. We always drink out of glass, and recycling is a huge deal, which everybody can partake in.

The law itself is on trial quite as much as the cause which is to be decided.

Everything the Beats stood for was the opposite of the dominant culture today.

Why can't we learn to live with how we are? And whatever anybody chooses is okay by the rest of us?

Friendship never forgets. That is the wonderful thing about it.

The most pernicious of absurdities is that weak, blind, stupid faith is better than the constant practice of every human virtue.

On no other ground Can I sow my seed Without tearing up Some stinking weed.